The Book of Unwritten Tales: The Critter Chronicles

I am starting the game at a resolution of 1920x1080 and it does not cover the whole screen, but leaves black bars at the left and right side. So I have to choose 1600x1200 in order to avoid seeing those bars all the time.Why does this happen? Is there a way I can fix it?

Is your monitor wide screen? because 1600x1200 is a 4:3 aspect ratio (not widescreen) resolution and 1920x1080 is 16:9 widescreen.

16:9 would have black bars on the top and bottom when viewed on a 4:3 or 16:10 monitor. I don't no why you would have black bars on the left and right though unless you were trying to view a 4:3 picture on a 16:9 or 16:10 screen.

No, I am talking about a 16:9 Full HD TV and the black bars are not on top and bottom of the screen, but on the left and right corner. Every other modern game I run is absolutely OK (btw, I know all about these things and the aspect ratios). So there must be a problem with the 16:9 game resolution, otherwise I cannot explain it...

The game appears not to have native support for 16:9 monitors, hence the black bars. I guess the engine for the game was built in a time where 16:9 monitors were uncommon. Either cope with that, set the monitor to fill the screen or complain to the developers and hope for a future patch that deals with this.

The developers made an excuse about the original game being "old" and thus being designed for 1920x1200 only. This is a new game, they even added Steam Achievements, and STILL they have not gotten with the times and properly supported 1920x1080 which is the new standard! They have no more excuses. This company just doesn't listen. I would not support their games.